As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
BABE RUTHI hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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